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Aloe Vera and Lavender offer immediate relief, shorten healing times, and are soothing while Peppermint is cooling and refreshing.

4 oz organic Aloe Vera Gel
15 drops organic Lavender essential oil
10 drops Vitamin E Oil
2-5 drops organic Peppermint essential oil

As Y&H’s colleague Warren Rojas points out over on Gut Check, tonight’s episode of Top Chef is all about NoVa. Well, mostly about NoVa. The quickfire challenge will involve Maryland blue crab as the main ingredient and Inn at Little Washington chef/owner Patrick O’Connell as the guest judge.

The elimination challenge will ask the contestants to cook a multi-course meal at Ayrshire Farm in Upperville, Va., where the owners operate the innovative farm-to-fork restaurant, Hunter’s Head Tavern.

RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Organic eggs are no healthier than factory-farmed eggs and are thus not worth the extra costs, concludes an article running in this week's issue of Time magazine. But the article's author is missing some major benefits of organic eggs—such as the fact that they're higher in omega-3 fatty acids, are free of antibiotic residues, and contain no arsenic, which is added to factory-farmed chicken-feed to prevent infections and spur growth.

GREENFIELD, Mass. (July 9, 2010)—A July 8 article in Time published under the headline “Organic Eggs: More Expensive, but No Healthier” misleads the consumer. In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture research cited, as published in Poultry Science, includes no reference to certified organic eggs and says nothing about nutritional value, according to the Organic Trade Association, which reviewed the findings before writing a letter to Time to protest.

"So many people are confused when it comes to what different terms like organic, conventional or natural mean," says Amy Marlow, MPH, RD.  The survey found that 36 percent of moms were not sure, or thought that organic and natural mean the same thing on a deli meat label.

Marlow says that eating organic food offers a whole range of benefits, including:

In this interview, author Anna Lappé explains how our current food system is contributing to global warming, and why organic agriculture offers hope for a healthier and more sustainable solution to climate change.  

The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued a report entitled “Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks,” outlines health concerns posed by the nine currently approved dyes used on conventionally produced foods.

There are a number of really great advantages to buying organic foods (especially vegetables and fruits), over buying conventionally grown foods:

1. Organic foods contain more nutrients
Studies have shown that foods grown organically have more of the nutrients available in the foods, compared to foods grown conventionally.

GREENFIELD, Mass. (July 1, 2010): In response to a call from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to ban synthetic dyes to color foods, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) today reminded consumers that they can already avoid such dyes in the marketplace by choosing to purchase organic foods.